A Big Win for Healthy Food in Our Schools
Alternet - 12/13/2010. By Robert Gottlieb and Anupama Joshi – Thanks to the tireless efforts of thousands of people who are working hard to get America's schools to serve healthier food, including First Lady Michelle Obama, the $4.5 billion "Healthy, Hunger-free Kids Act 2010" prevailed in the lame-duck session of Congress. The new law marks a key step toward potentially transforming the food served in America's public schools. |
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Corn lobby cashes in on tax compromise
Grist - 12/13/2010. By Tom Philpott – The latest version of the compromise, which is expected to, pass this week, would deliver a one-year extension of a tax break for ethanol use that costs the public about $5 billion per year. The tax break is absurd. It adds to farmers' incentives to plant as much corn as possible and goose up yields by dumping on fertilizer. |
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World Health Organization calls BPA legislation and control ‘premature’
TreeHugger - 12/11/2010. By Lloyd Alter – TreeHugger was one of the earliest sites to raise concern about endocrine disrupting chemicals like Bisphenol A; we were loud in our support for the removal of polycarbonate bottles (an easy target as there are lots of alternatives) and for the elimination of BPA epoxies from tin cans. |
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Preserving food diversity
Zester Daily - 12/11/2010. By Terra Brockman – After five days of sparkling skies over Turin, Italy, at the end of October, there was "a perturbation in the weather," as the Italians say. And so it was under a heavy gray sky spitting icy rain, that we arrived at the huge Saturday market in Asti, and there my eyes were captured by the sunny-colored peppers of Carmagnola. |
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